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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1960,
So America has
been rumbled...but Russia is far from innocent!
BEFORE anyone gets holier-than-thou about
the ill-fated flight of the U.S. reconnaissance plane over Russia, let me present three inescapable facts:
For centuries every powerful aation has sought to penetrale secrets of its neigh bours by peace-time espionage.
Technical devices such as tapped telephones and camou- Baged cameras-oflon mounted in "tourists' " cars-are standard Spy equipment. So today is the high altitude photographic air- plane,
The Russians devote more money and effort to Intel- ligence than any other nation. Their embassies are stuffed with high-level spies masquerading as clerks and chauffeurs.
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Maudie Unless you're mad keen to become the pin-up of the Pentagon, I should advise you to take CAFFE at once!"
London Express Service.
Turkey is certainly wolt seeded with Sovlat spies wiw may well have learned," the route of the US. reconnaissance flight in ad- vince decided help in shout- ing it down.
Even the cables
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
The Americans monitored the and the B.A.F. have planned British H-bomb tests along m immediate refallatory with Russian submarines-near strike with H-bombs. Christmas Island in the Pacific
A taunt
MT Khrushchey has his longue in his cheek when he claims that the Russians would печет infringe anyone's air space. His taunt that Soviet
Each pilot has a target and knows how to get there. Such planning could not have been accomplished without accurate mapping.
The other day the Americans
admitted that they have been over flying Russia for years,
If the R.A.F. has failed to get its own Intelligence pictures
be yet another military field in which we are relying entirely on the Americans.
Using "trawlers" fled with reconnaissance planes take special detection equipment they clearer and more accurate pic for its vital role then this mast have mapped the Transatlantic tures contradict him. cables so that their submarines could cut them in the event of What are these planes for? war. Their 10.104 civil air. Photographing the May Day liners flying into London Air-, rally in Red Square? port have photographed the Thor missile sites.
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The US. authorities may have
been stupid to send in a recce plane so shortly before the Summit meeting, but before we
Crabbe,
Mr K's claims that he could knock out the main U.S. cities with rockets also five him away.
are
Long-range rockets can get to their target only if their built- in guidance mechanisms condemn them let us remember pre-set according to data based the sorry C360 of frogman on detailed serial macs. The Russians must possess such maps their For those who have forgotten to have confidence la
British Intelligence services rockets. They have got them employed Crabbe to inspect the only by over Aying Canadian underwater structure the and U.S. territory. cruiser which brought Mr Khrushebey to Britain as the Government's guest. The Russians spoiled him in Portsmouth har- bour and made the most of the international scandal.
of
Crabbe, who lost his life in the incident, was a brave patriot. So is Captain Francis Powers. the U.S. pilot now held in Moscow,
In view of these facts let us all admit that though Intel- ligence is a dirty game every nation plays it. Why, we even spy on our allies.
British reconnaissance planes were briefed to fly over French territory to monitor General de Gaulle's atom-bomb test in the Sahara.
Essential
How many of the so-called flying saucer sightings were Soviet reconnaissance planes?
Such mags were certainly needed to align the abandoned Blue Streak on its targets. They will be needed even more for Skybol, the successor.
Stupid
In short, without maps the whole deterrent policy makes mo sense, and Mr K. has al- ways realised this. He has chosen to make an example of Captain Powers' case because he has captured the pilot and be- cause the stupid American timing suited him perfectly, as it did in the case of Commander Crabbe.
II
In view of all these facts The trouble is that fatelli- which are common to both sides gence has never been so vital 1 can see no reason why this one for boy major nation's survival incident should sour the Summit. than it is today. The H-bomb it is an extra card for Mr carrying pocket has given such Khrushchev, but it will not alter a tremendous advantage to the his basic attitude or purpose. nation which can stage a sud- he has made up his mind be den, unexpected attack that up wants peace and disarmament to-the-minute Intelligence of a
this public example of an under- potential enemy's preparations cover conflict he has known are essential.
about for years will not deter him.
-London Express Service).
To deler such an attack the U.S. Strategic Air Command
"Aw, just weather planes--to help you improve the climate, Ike .
London Express Berplot,
Top doctors will listen in
THE world's first team of "space surgeons" is
now under training. The men are all senior doctors of the US. Army, Navy, and Air Force, Their task is to "watch" every breath, every move- ment of the first American astronaut to be fired in a rocket.
A minute-by-minute medi- tion suddenly worsens. the cal check from the ground will surgeons will at once advise the
the man chosen, flight planners. be kept on
record his Instruments will pulse, breathing, powers of com
ordination, and the information Helping hand
will be transmitted back to earth.
each tracking
One "spare surgeon" will be for Russians. attadhed to post as part team.
of a three-man
Space talk
to the first
life in space
As meteorites travel through use, the sun as a source of space,
cosmic rays bombard power. them. The effect of this radia- tion is to change metals in them
As far pe we can discover,
Inta kaw "brands" called none is being done in Bri
Isotopes. But the change is temporary, As soon as the hom-
tain. For obvious reasons.
bardment slops, and the Ancient man
meteorite bits Earth, the metals start to revert to their old form. Hence the scientists' urgency.
Besides the British team, ex- and Switzer- perts in America
from the sea
British scientists are working Bat-out to analyse pieces of a RUSSIAN meteorite. It fell nepr the Soviet village of
Sir Alister Hardy, Oxford Pro- Special equipment is being Yardymly, in Azerbaijan last and are helping the Russians in fessor of Zoology, has pui built to enable the doctors to November. Five lumps of it the race against time. The forward the startling theory talk to the astronaut in his have been found - the largest reward is fresh knowledge of that man was once a set-ape, capsule. If his physical condi- weighing 2506.
how the Universe was formed, living off inshore fish and shell.
CLUB TRIAL focuseS
:
THE END OF THE PEN
IN
ATTENTION ON CRIME
Only this
time someone was killed
AN shot dead in East End club
MAN
guard
[*
London,
THE UNDERWORLD
Woman witness disappears be- fore she can testify in murder case Witnesses get police Woman staggers into Old Bailey and says she has been slashed Judge orders re-trial.
I have no doubt you have been shocked to learn the sort of thing that is going on in this city. Perhaps the most shocking thing of all is that some of these witnesses were scared -scared to tell the truth. It is a perfectly shocking
thing.
Mr Justice Diplock in the London Pen Club trial recently.
THE GANGS
OF
LONDON
ing up of one mobster by several from a rival gang.
Why isn't the whole sordia business cleaned up?
Bak London boroughs. The South the victim's premises to London Boys, who meet in the politely it he wants protection. Partly because evidence that. Elephant and Castle district and If he agrees, a bargain is struck will stand up in sourt is hard Lambeth and other areas. The If not, within a week or ten to find. Victims are straldto Bival hoodiums do noś East End Mob. And the Notting days the mob arrives "tooled talk. And now, at the end of it all, a man is jailed five years for assault.
Hill Gang, who cover the West up" with weapons. They start a squeal on one another. Witnesses This was the Pen Club case. Sensational stuff while it lasted. A 93-day End and Soho.
Right and wreck the premises. can be terrorised. By the time the police come, the wonder. Will it be forgotten tomorrow?
wreckers have gone. With prac tice, the job takes less than
Police, lawyers and a multi- dude of little frightened people (grocers, cafe proprietors, club- owners and petty crooks) know that the Chicago-like incidents the Pen trial brought to light are only part of a great underworld activity that simmers beneath the urbane surface of London, 1960.
Protection
"י
By FRANK ENTWISLE
Research by VICTOR TODDINGTON and JOHN MILLER
In between there are numerous smaller-time hoodlum groups and free-lancers.
They all carry wapong hatchets, truncheons, knives, razors, bicycle chains, and more recently, pistols,
Avé minutes,
In some cases the gang's col- lector Just walks in each week, and takes what he wants from the till the amount depending on his assessment of the vic-
They are not normally con- fim's prosperity. nected with the few gangs who deal in big crime such as jewel thefts
The breeding ground of these crooks are the clubs they run (at their headquarters" they are careful to keep proper licensing hours and abide by regulations).
And the "law, says anyone can start a club, merely by register- ing it with the clerk of the local justices and paying 55. 44. The clerk has no power to refuse. Police have no powers of entry, as they have with public houses. Although a club can be struck off the register it can open up elsewhere the following day Frequently,
the gang has under a different name, collected information or 'SOME minor adding by the victim, Parole swhich they hold over him to. extract more money,
and gang feuding that is now on" cades, pubs, street bookles, and
Recently a Spitalfields club the increase, and which some about 30 other clubs, and they
and bank robberies, was wrecked within 24 hours of police officers belleve could break boast in the underworld that out into mob warfare with guns they could put 100 armed men an These are a more sophisticated opening because the proprietor and professional kind of hesitated over the matter of and grenades.
the streets in an hour.
criminal. They are never armed protection. They could tell-but don't
Now its leaders have ambitions when they go on a jpb. Indeed, police are now trying about gangs, that operate pro- to check a story that one East to move into West London, the tection rackets about wrecked End moh (they had nothing to Solo and Bayswater territory of Wrecked shops, smashed tile, ruined do with the Pen cose) has col- another gang. If they do, and it slock. They know that almost lected an armoury of Sten guns, the gay story is not Just every night somewhere
hand grenades and tear gas cook's boasting to intimidate London sotheon.c Ax elashed, beaten up, or stabbed, and that, watch they move from rival crooks, there could be fire tion gangs?
greater works in the West End that
would cause the death of tong there is no publicity because place to place for victims don't, talk.
cent people,
They know that the only
security.
difference between the Ambitions
“Cass and the "regular, mig ink Labe night-out violence in that this
time somebody_gotükillad..
How many protection gangs
are there in the capital? ma
All present there are four main This gang ruma 12 drinking. ncun The Jeligion Mob -- pubs, bujuding one nese an Bast they cover. Islington,, Holloway,
It is all part of a pattem, and police piption. They fact: King's Cross Camden Hart, shocking pattern of protection "protection fees" from cheap Cananbury, and, other North
L
How powerful are the protec
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So powerful that one pub owner has recently been paying £60 a week to an East End gang for a quiet life. So power. ful that the victims rarely ment to the palipe-and-there- fore prosecutions are rare,"
But police say that the big- When do they fight among gest clumbling block is the themselves?
parole-system which allows men "Usually when one gang has in a hostel, work on parole for on long prison sentences to live Poached on another's "manor" a sponsor by day and return to
the hostel at night. (territory).
Now police are finding that Recently mob tenders have the Sponsorstenectverare been using map to move in an sometimes crooks, and thất rival manors and the tempo of crooks are meeting their under- Tivalry leur encased. But therá world goeintes in drinking rastice is to send are few pitched battles, Violence clubs phille os parole..
gang member topsually takes the form of a beal-
London Express Service).
How do they worki
But not
in Britain!
Today we print a picture of a 46-year-old car with a dif- forence. It is a Baker Electric. But look at its roof.
fish. Could our ancestors, have lived half a million years (0) such a diet?
There is evidence to sugest that some did.
On the north-east coast o Denmark a farmer on the huật er ballast recently dug his srade into what looked like/a typical line of sand-duries. To his astonishmen, the hillocks
Fixed on top is a panel of 10,240 solar cells. These pick up proved to be huge mounds of heat from the sun and change oyster shells-trillions of them. it into chemical energy to power must have taken many pre-
Judging by the number I
a 72-volt battery system. Some
nine hours of sunshine tre
historie. Danes a very long time
needed to drive the car for an to eat their way up to such a hour at a speed of 20 m.p.h.
Sputnik-style
height.
It takes a lot of oysters to make a meal, but they make A highly nutritious one. So do crabs, lobsters, mussels-in fact, The cells are similar to those all fish. Seats and polar bears used to power transmitters in do not look badly nourished. So the American Pioneer V satellite. Sir Alister's theory may be very Much research is now going on much on target.
in, many countries into ideas to
-London Expren Service).
The car which píska up power from the unfin
in Britain.
Two
WO shapely girl students lured two Asferioan
telenes, building at Sydney Univeralty he other The girls disappeared. The sallies foud behind wire-mesh doors of tap dog kandila
aflors were photographer and the sindens celebratiems pamanetnordfing victory.
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